PIETER PIETERSZ BARBIERS Lot n° 7

(Amsterdam, 1749 - 1842) Pastoral landscape Oil on canvas applied to panel, 212X243 cm Provenance: Den Haag, collection of Mrs. L. Thurkow-van Huffel Amsterdam, Sotheby's, May 10, 1994, lot 13 (as Pieter Pietersz Barbiers) Exhibitions: Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Cornelis Troost en Zijn Tijd, 1946, cat. no. 1 Bibliography: RKD: https://rkd.nl/imageslite/325356 An artist celebrated for his Arcadian landscapes and a refined animalier painter, Barbiers trained in his father's workshop and is listed as a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Amsterdam from 1786 until 1796, when the influential institution was abolished by Napoleon. A member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts since 1822, Barbiers we know headed an esteemed atelier. The canvases presented here best document the author's landscape talent and delicate rocaille sensibility.